When Half a V-8 Is Enough

By RICHARD S. CHANG
Published: April 8, 2010

SCARSDALE, N.Y.


JACKIE SARIL’S nickname is Marisa Tomei, not that the two look much alike. For starters, Ms. Saril, who co-owns a public relations firm, has red hair. But her broad knowledge of vintage American cars reminds her friends of Mona Lisa Vito, Ms. Tomei’s caricature of a fast-talking, gum-chewing, surprisingly car-smart New Yorker in the 1992 film “My Cousin Vinny.” [more ...]

Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Modern Century

By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: April 8, 2010

Rarely has the phrase “man of the world” been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the subject of a handsome and large — though surely not anywhere near large enough — retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday. ...

... “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century” runs from Sunday through June 28 at the Museum of Modern Art; moma.org. It travels to the Art Institute of Chicago (July 24 to Oct. 3); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Oct. 30 to Jan. 30); and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (Feb. 19 to May 15).

Click on the post's title to read the entire article at The NY Times.

The exhibit will also appear in Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta.

Call of the Small

From a New York Times report: CHRISTINE FERRARA, a 39-year-old public affairs director for the Institute for Advanced Study, a research center in Princeton, N.J., has a passion for modern architecture and design. It began in 2008, when her husband, Steven Birnbaum, a technology consultant, bought her an airy modern home with floor-to-ceiling windows. [more ...]

Ms. Ferrara's blog is Call of the Small.

Glenn Beck Doesn't 'Give a flying crap'

Forbes magazine has posted an article, "Glenn Beck Inc," which quotes Beck: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company."

Yes, he's an entertainer, but he's doing incredible damage to the country because many in his audience take him seriously.

Hat tips to Immoral Minority and Think Progress.